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Wildflowers on the Viking Way

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The marbled white has a habit of resting open-winged on vegetation which lets you get eye-to-eye with these beautif… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 20 hours ago
I love these chequerboard butterflies - a marbled white at rest on a grass flower in a dusky meadow https://t.co/KmNrEHgT1O 1 day ago
@BSBIbotany @issybryonyh I had missed that hashtag! I thought my version was more likely to end up on Nick Clegg’s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
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Snails get a bad rap and I totally get why - we’ve lost no end of seedlings to these little munchers! But I still r… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 days ago

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Wild marjoram is in flower right now - as well as smelling fantastic, it is a great wildflower for pollinators such as this hoverfly Sphaerophoria scripta #wildmarjoram #wildflower #wildflowerhour #hoverfly

Burnet moth - a day flying species common in grassland meadows nectaring on scabious flowers #burnetmoth #scabious #meadow #grassland #wildflower #wildflowerhour

Never tire of these cheery faces - a bee orchid flowering away in a calcareous grassland #wildflowerhour #beeorchid #wildflower

Wasp orchid flowering in the early evening light on a @leiceswildlife reserve #wasporchid #30dayswild #wildflowerhour #wildflower #orchid

Every cloud has a silver lining! I’ll miss newt surveys on this site with its wide west views to watch the sun go down #newtsurvey #sunset

Cow parsley at sunset #meadow #summer #cowparsley #wildflower #wildflowerhour

Green oak roller moth settled on a grass flower at sunset #moth #meadow #sunset

Soft brome flower heads against a summer sunset sky #sunset #grass #grassflower

The tiny purple-threaded flowers of smooth tare in the grassy meadow #smoothtare #wildflowerhour #meadow

Common blue butterfly feeding on buttercup on a damp morning in the meadow #butterfly #meadow #wildflower

Common blue butterfly roosting for the night in a meadow of buttercups and clover #butterfly #meadow #30dayswild

Butterfly orchid spreading its wings at Aston Clinton Ragpits - a tiny orchid paradise in the Chilterns

Fragrant orchid just coming into flower amongst the grasses at Aston Clinton ragpits - a little slice of orchid paradise in the Chilterns #fragrantorchid #orchid #chilterns

Fly orchid flowering in Homefield Wood

The only place in the country where monkey orchids and lady orchids have hybridised is in Hartslock - impressively set above the Thames near Goring, Oxfordshire #orchid #wildflower #wildflowerhour #hartslock

Bluebells in a glade of sunlight #bluebell #bluebells #wildflowerhour

Green winged orchids flowering in Muston Meadows NNR - a tiny scrap of a lost landscape where flower rich hay meadows dominated rather than industrialised monocultures of crops... #orchid #greenwingedorchid #mustonmeadows #wildflowerhour

Bluebells in the beechwoods #bluebell #bluebells #beech #woodland #forest #wildflower #wildflowerhour

Early purple orchids are often found trying to blend in amongst a sea of bluebells - aptly named they’re one the first of our orchid species to flower in late spring/early summer #orchid #earlypurpleorchid #woodland #wildflowerhour

This huge cylinder of an ancient long-gone tree stands 3m high on the track down towards Middle Pond in Burnham Beeches #burnhambeeches #ancienttree #ancienttrees #woodland #forest

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